Novelty savinos bank



Feb. 3, 1931. c. A. {mn- ETAL 1,790,959

NOVELTY SAVINGS BANK Filed May 25. 1929 2 SheetsSheet l ggg Feb. 3, 1931. c. A. TRAFF E1' AL 1,790,959

NOVELTY SAVINGS BANK Filed May 25, 1929 2 Shets-Sheet 2 t w C 357m f Wre/02mm# a@ Patented Feb. 3, 1931 UNITED vSTATESv PATENT OFFICE CARI. A. TRATT, or DES MOINES, AND ARTHUR E. JOHNSON, or :aocKWELL CITY, IOWA, AssIGNoRs F ONE-THIRD To WILLIAM BREAU, oF DES MoINEs, IOWA NOVELTY SAVINGS BANK Application led May 25, 1929. Serial No. 366,064.

vide a novelty savings bank and clock with the foregoing features in which money may, if desired, be deposited in the bank portion without affecting the shrouding mechanism when such mechanism is in a cocked condition.

A still further object of our invention to provide a coin saving bank and clock that automatically closes the coin entrance slot after the coin has been inserted through the same, thereby preventing the coin from passing back out of the slot by the manual shaking of the bank.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a novelty savings bank and clock that is economical in manufacture and dui`- able in use.

These and other objections will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

Our invention consists in the construction,

arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby, the objects contemplated are attained as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in our claims and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in

. which Fig. 1 is a front sectional view of our invention with the clock face shrouding mechanism in a cocked position.

Fig. 2 is a front sectional vview of the invention showing the clock face shrouding mechanism in a tripped position and over the face of the clock.

Fig. 3 is a back sectional view of the device and more fully illustrates its interior construction.

Fig. is a side view of a portion of one pair ofthe curtain or shroud guide rods, with a portion of the curtain slidably mounted therein.

Fig. 5 is a side view of our complete inventionready for use and showing the money inlet ports.

` Fig. 6 is a front View of the complete inventionwith the face ofthe clock unshrouded.

Fig. 7 is a front view of the complete device with the face of the clock shrouded byv the movable curtain.

Fig. 8 is a back view of our complete invention and more fully illustrates the same.

Many novel devices functioning with clocks have been placed on the market to encourage systematic saving of money. All of these devices, however, aremore or less irritating by the sounding of an alarm or the like, and if the device operates when the owner is not present its suggestive alarm is a total loss.

We have overcome these objections by pro-v viding ay combination savings bank and clock that requires the depositing of a coin at predetermined intervals to eliminate the shrouding ofthe face of the clock by a curtain. By such a device the clock shrouding mechanism may actuate while the owner is not present but its eil'ectiveness is not hampered thereby, as the clock face remains shrouded until a coin is placed in the bank.

Ve have usedl the numeral 10 to designate the bank and clock housing, having an opening 11, in its front top side. Secured in the housing and having itsl face adjacent the opening 11, is the clock 12. The clocks winding key 13 and hand setting stem 14, extend through the back of the housing as shown in the drawings. The numerals 15 and 16 designate two spaced apart parallel rods, a pair of whichl are located on each side of the opening 11, and in front of the clock 12. Slidably mounted in these two pairs of parallel rods is the curtain 17, capable of lbeing slid upwardly to a position in front of the Jface ofthe clock 12, as shown in Fig. 2. The numeral 18 designates a coil spring having oneend 4secured to the topiof the housing 10 and its other end secured to the bottom of the curtain 17 for yieldingly holding the curtain 17, in a position in front of the face of the clock 12.

The numeral 19, designates a bar member pivoted in the housing near its center, having its upper end portion extendingto t-he left of the hour hand shaft 20, and its lower end portion extending to the right of the lug 21 formed on the inner side of the curtain 17. In the bar 19, adjacent the lug 21 when the. curtain 17 is in a lowered position and capable of engaging the lug 21, and holding the curtain 17 ina lowered position is the notch Permanently secured to the hour hand shaft 20, against relative movement is a disc 23 and formed on the disc 23 is the lug 2-1 capable of engaging the upper portion of the bar 19 each time the hour shaft 20 Inakes one revolution. In order that the lug 24: only engages the bar 19 during a short length of time, thereby allowing the device to be manually returned to a cocked position directly after the shrouding mechanism has been actuated, we have provided a cut-away portion in the upper portion of the bar 19 as shown in the drawings. The numeral 26 designates a coil spring having one end secured against movement inside the housing 10 and its other end secured to the upper end of the bar 19. This spring is so positioned in the housing that,

the upper portion of the bar 19 will be yieldingly held toward the lug 24 and the notch 22 will yieldingly engage the lug 21 on the curtain 17. By such a construction if the curtain 17 is manually moved to a lowered position its lug 21 will enter and engage the notch 22. thereby preventing the coil spring 18 from raising the curtain 17 to a position in front of the face of the clock until the bar 19 is moved to a position where the notch 22 is out of engagement with the lug 21.

VThis is accomplished every twelve hours by the lug 24 on the disc 23 engaging the upper portion of the bar 19, and forcing the same to the left. As soon as the lug 21 is free from the notch 22,'the coil spring 18 will pull the curtain upwardly and over the face of the clock making' it impossible to view the time of day by the clock.

IVe have used the numeral 27 to designate a webbing in the lower portion of the housing and near the front thereof. Pivoted to the webbing 27 at a point between its two ends is the arm 28, as shown in Fig. 2. The numeral 29 designates a link having one end pivotally secured to onefend of the arm 28 and its other end pivotally secured to the curtain 17 at a point near the spring end of the curtain. IVe have used the numeral 30 to designate a shelving on the upper portion of the webbing 27. Embracing one end of the shelving 30 and positioned between the end of the shelving 30 and the side of the housing 10 is an L-member 31 as shown in Fig. 3. By this construction the L-member 31, will be pivotally secured on the shelf 30. Having one end hinged on top of and near the longitudinal center of the shelf 30 is a bar member 32 having its free end over-lapping the upper end of L-member 31. Formed on the marginal edge of the bar 32 is an upturned rounded flange 33 capable of engaging the lug 34 formed on the free end ofthe, arm 28, as shown in Fig. 3. We have used the numeral 35 to designate a leaf spring having one end secured to the shelf 30 and its other end engaging the top of the bar member 32, and yieldingly holding the bar member in a lowered position.

By the arrangement of these last described parts if the lower end of the L-member 31 was forced inwardly from the housing 10 it would raise the bar member 23. The raising of the bar member 28 would cause its Harige 33 to engage the lug 34 and raise the free end of the arm 28. Naturally the raising of the free end ofthe arm 28 would lower the opposite end of the arm 28 and pull the curtain 17 downwardly to a position where it would engage the notch 22 in the bar 19. As soon as the L-member was released the leaf spring 35 would yieldingly return it to a normal position and when in this normal position it will partially inclose the coin slot or port 36 in the side of the housing 10, as shown in Fig. 5. In other words after the curtain has been tripped by the lug 24 and the face of the clock is shrouded as in Fig. 6, the forcing of a coin 37 into and through the slot 36 will move the Aside ofthe housing 10 and return the curtain 17 to a cocked position and to a position away from the face of the clock 12. To be able to enjoy the services of the clock it will be necessary to deposit a coin in the bank each time the clock trips the shrouding mechanism. Once the coin is deposited in the bank the L-member 31 will be returned to a normal position by the leaf spring 35, and the slot 36 will be partially closed thereby preventing the removal of the coin through the slot 36.

IVhen it is desired to remove the money saved in the bank a door 38 is provided in the back of the housing 10. This door is maintained in a closed position until it is desired to remove the saved money by an ordinary key-lock 39.

The opening 40 in the side of the housing 10 is a money port for the inserting of paper currency into the bank.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of our improved combination novelty savings bank and clock without departing from the real spirit and purv pose of our invention, and it is our intention holding said curtain in front of the face of said clock, a catch mechanism for holding said curtain in a position not in front of said clock, a means operatively connected to said l clock for releasing said catch mechanism at times, and coin operated mechanism for the moving of said curtain to a position away .from the front of said clock and in engagement with said catch mechanism, saidcoin operated mechanism being actuated by the manual inserting of a coin in said receptacle.

2. In a device of the class described, a receptacle having a slot and an opening, a clock in said housing having its face adjacent said v opening, a curtain slidably mounted in said housing and capable of assuming a position in front of the face of said clock, a yielding means for holding said curtain in front of the face of said clock, a catch mechanism for holding said curtain in a position not in front of said clock, a means operatively connected to said clock for releasing said catch mechanism at times, and a coin operated mechanism for the moving of said curtain to a position 'away from the front of saidclock and in engagement with said catch mechanism; said coin operated mechanism being so positioned adjacent said slot that the manual forcing of a coin in said slot will engage said coin operated mechanism and move said curtain to a position in engagement with said catch mechanism.

3. In a device of the class described, a receptacle having a slot and an opening, a clock in said housing having its face adjacent said opening and with Winding and setting members extending outside of said housing, a curtain slidably mounted in said housing and capable of assuming a position in front 4o of the face of said clock, a spring means for yieldingly holding said curtain in front of the face of said clock, a catch mechanism for holding Said curtain in a position not in front of said clock, a means operatively connected to said clock for releasing said mechanism at times, and a coin operated mechanism in said clock and extending to a point adjacent said slot for the moving of said curtain to a position away from the front of said clock and in engagement with said catch mechanism; said coin operated mechanism being so positioned adjacent said slot that the same may be manually actuated by engagement with the coin to be placed in said receptacle. y CARL A. TRAFF.

` ARTHUR E. JOHNSON. 

